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November 2025 announcements

This page provides the announcements for Microsoft Partner Center for November 2025.

New commerce experience Software price list improvements

Beginning January 1, 2026 the NCE Software price list will include a new enhancement.

  • Date: November 25, 2025
  • Workspace: Pricing
  • Impacted audience: All Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) partners

Details

Introduction of fields that capture the previous value for changed items in the NCE Software price list: New columns PreviousValues and ChangeIndicator will be added to the NCE Software price list effective January 1, 2026.

If the column ChangeIndicator shows a Change for any price list row, it means that the row changed from the previous month. The change indicator monitors updates to the following fields:

  • Product Title
  • SKU Title
  • Publisher
  • SKU Description
  • ERP Price
  • Unit Price

The new column PreviousValues shows the previously published value from the prior month. This update helps partners more easily understand Software price list changes.

Next steps

Introducing the Launch Enablement guide

Get the latest launch updates across the Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) offering and Volume Licensing (VL) in one place.

  • Date: November 18, 2025
  • Workspace: General
  • Impacted audience: All partners

With the AI-enhanced, always-current Launch Enablement guide, you can easily access consolidated launch updates and official Microsoft Learn content to self-serve and stay informed.

The Launch Enablement guide equips you to:

  • Navigate a centralized experience: Launch updates live in one place, replacing the monthly Partner Launch calendars and empowering you to find the right information in a single location.
  • Use AI-assisted discovery to find key information: Quickly surface what’s new, what’s changing, and who’s impacted.
  • Plan for changes with confidence: Turn updates into actions for sales, operations, and customer communications.

Next steps

Explore the Launch Enablement guide for the latest updates:

Microsoft 365 Copilot Business

Microsoft 365 Copilot Business: New offers and limited-time promotions coming December 1, 2025

  • Date: November 18, 2025
  • Workspace: General
  • Impacted audience: Cloud solution provider (CSP) partners

As more small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) seek to scale their AI strategies and become Frontier Firms, Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) partners are positioned to deliver the solutions and guidance they need to make AI transformation a reality.

To support you in capturing this opportunity and closing timely renewals and strategic upgrades, we're launching Microsoft 365 Copilot Business, a new offering and promotions created for SMB customers with fewer than 300 users, on December 1, 2025.

About Microsoft 365 Copilot Business

Microsoft 365 Copilot Business delivers the same AI-powered productivity features as the current Copilot SKU (available for 30 USD), at a more accessible price point for SMBs.

  • Price: 21.00 USD per user per month
  • License cap: Up to 300 users
  • Requires: Microsoft 365 Business Basic, Standard, or Premium license

Drive Copilot adoption for Microsoft 365 renewals with convenience bundles

Three bundles combine the Microsoft 365 Business base SKU and Copilot Business, so you can streamline transactions and equip customers with AI-powered productivity solutions, faster.

  • Business Basic + Copilot Business: Basic + 21.00 USD
  • Business Standard + Copilot Business: 30.50 USD per user per month at list (for example Standard + 21.00 USD)
  • Business Premium + Copilot Business: 43 USD per user per month at list (for example Premium + 21.00 USD)

New promotions for Copilot Business

As you start renewal conversations with your customers, we’re also launching new promotions you can use to encourage them to unlock—and maximize—the value of Copilot on day one.

  • Standalone Copilot Business (21 USD): 15% off, 1–300 licenses
  • Business Standard + Copilot Business bundle: 35% off, 10–300 licenses
  • Business Premium + Copilot Business bundle: 25% off, 10–300 licenses
  • Microsoft Purview suite add-on for Business Premium: 50% off for a security-forward offer

Promotions run from December 1, 2025, to March 31, 2026. Review the Global Promotion Readiness guide, available December 1, for complete details on promotional rates.

Next steps

  • Use Microsoft Cloud Ascent and targeting signals for your renewal campaigns.
  • Explore the Partner Playbook to learn more about the offers and pricing.
  • Review the Partner FAQ for more details on terms and conditions.
  • Download the Launch Kit for more content to use when discussing the offers with your customers.

November monthly Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program update

What’s new for Solutions Partner designations, specializations, and other Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program offerings and benefits.

  • Date: November 5, 2025
  • Workspace: Membership
  • Impacted audience: Partners enrolled in the Microsoft AI Cloud Partner Program

This month’s updates continue to enhance partner differentiation and readiness across high-demand solution areas. Key changes include specialization updates that integrate AI capabilities, revised skilling and performance requirements, and streamlined qualification frameworks to support partner growth and agility.

Available now

Enhancing Learning Profiles: Multi-Account Linking and Unified Credential View

We're excited to announce significant enhancements to the Learning Profile experience in Partner Center, designed to simplify credential management and improve skilling accessibility for all users. Beginning November 18, these updates will empower individuals to manage learning profiles more efficiently while accessing richer insights into their certifications.

Key Highlights of the Update:

  • Multiple Profile Linking: Users can now link multiple Microsoft Learn profiles—both MSA and AAD—directly from the Learn Linking page. This change eliminates the need for account mergers and provides flexibility for those managing certifications across different accounts.
  • Credential Visibility and Filtering: Once linked, users are able to view credentials from all connected accounts in one consolidated view. Advanced filtering options allow sorting by account type and credential category, ensuring quick access to relevant certifications.
  • Improved Navigation: The Learning Profile section now features separate tabs for Partner University and Learn Linking, creating a cleaner interface.
  • Updated UI and Actions: The Learn Linking page is redesigned to support these changes. Users have a new Add New Microsoft Learn Profile option and an action button for View Learnings. Linked accounts are displayed in a tabular format, including account type, linked date, and quick actions such as Unlink Account.
  • Future-Ready Design: These changes lay the foundation for upcoming AI-driven features that provide personalized recommendations and support for skilling journeys.
Why This Matters

By enabling multi-profile linking and improving credential visibility, we're addressing common pain points for users and partners. These enhancements streamline certification management, reduce support overhead, and deliver a more intuitive experience for all users engaging with Microsoft Learn.

Coming soon

In-Market Updates for Specializations

The following updates are coming in the next two months for two Azure Specializations—Build AI Apps on Microsoft Azure and Accelerate Developer Productivity with Microsoft Azure to better align to the specializations’ core requirements.

Key Highlights

Name Changes
  • Build AI Apps with Microsoft Azure is renamed to AI Apps on Microsoft Azure.
  • Accelerate Developer Productivity with Microsoft Azure is renamed to Agentic DevOps with Microsoft Azure and GitHub.
  • Former names are referenced in Learn Docs for continuity.
Performance Requirement Updates
  • Eligible strategic pillars for AI Apps on Microsoft Azure will be adjusted to align to current market strategy.

November Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) monthly updates and community reminder

Monthly views are now published including the updated partner launch calendars, the CSP Bimonthly Update newsletter, along with additional CSP community resources that provide you with essential program updates.

  • Date: November 4, 2025
  • Workspace: General
  • Impacted audience: CSP direct bill partners and indirect providers

Always available—Launch content on demand

For a consolidated view of all recent and active launches in a single place, visit the partner launch calendars collection. You'll find a timeline for each launch and links to published materials to help you learn more about that launch.

The downloadable CSP Bimonthly Update newsletter that aggregates recent CSP announcements, updates, events, and reminders in an easy-to-read document.

Partner Journey Maps provide detailed navigation along the journey of Microsoft’s highest priority transformations.

Need licensing readiness? The monthly CSP spotlight webinars cover the latest CSP licensing information available for all partners.

CSP Community Q&A reminder

The monthly CSP community Q&A session provides you with an opportunity to learn more and ask questions about changes affecting the program.

Register here to join upcoming calls.

Next steps

Review the Partner Launch Calendar, monthly newsletter, and register for upcoming Community Q&A calls.

Questions?

The monthly CSP community Q&A call is the best place to bring questions about operational change in the CSP program. You can submit a question up to 48 hours before the call.

Questions on any other CSP topic? Visit the Partner Center support page.

CSP Partners: Reminder of Global Changes to Microsoft 365 and Teams as of November 1

Reminder: Global Changes to Microsoft 365 and Teams Licensing, Discounting, and Sales Practices

  • Date: November 3, 2025
  • Workspace: General
  • Impacted audience: All CSP Partners transacting Microsoft 365

Details

Microsoft Commitments: Microsoft 365 and Teams Licensing, Discounting, and Sales Practices

As a reminder, Microsoft recently finalized an agreement with the European Commission (“Commitments”) regarding the inclusion of Teams in Microsoft 365 productivity suites in which we'll expand interoperability and data portability resources, and make additional changes to licensing, pricing, and discounting practices for Microsoft 365, Office 365, and Microsoft Teams. These changes are designed to enhance flexibility, support open ecosystems, and give customers more options to meet their unique needs.

Effective November 1, 2025, the changes include the reintroduction of the Microsoft 365 and Office 365 Enterprise suites with Teams globally, alongside the “no Teams” suites, and updated prices for Microsoft 365 and Office 365 enterprise, business, and frontline suites without Teams, and the Microsoft Teams Enterprise/EEA standalone globally. These changes are reflected on the November 1 CSP price list to enable partners to offer the same guarantees to customers, though partners can choose how to reflect these changes to their customers.

Next steps

Review the settlement announcement and Microsoft’s commitments published in the September 12, 2025 Microsoft partner blog.

Utilize the updated FAQ, partner guidance deck, and Microsoft 365 pitch decks in the partner resource gallery to understand what these changes mean for partners and your customers.

Extended service terms (ESTs) in sandbox and November price lists

Extended Service Terms are a new capability path for transacting Cloud Solution Providers (CSPs).

  • Date: November 1, 2025
  • Workspace: Customers, Pricing
  • Impacted audience: Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) distributors and direct bill partners

Details

CSPs can get started using the extended service terms in their sandbox environments end of day November 3, 2025 for these SKUs (stock keeping unites). These product SKUs are also in the November 1, 2025 new commerce license-based price list but CSP partners can only acquire and interact with them in their sandbox environments. Partners should ignore these product SKUs unless they're testing EST capabilities in their CSP sandbox environments. More SKUs will be added in the coming months. Partners can review important milestones and details about extended service terms in the technical learn topic.

ProductId:SkuId Segment Sku title
CFQ7TTC0LH18:001H Commercial Microsoft 365 Business Basic (no Teams) - Extended Service Term
CFQ7TTC0LH34:0009 Commercial Dynamics 365 Business Central Essentials - Extended Service Term
CFQ7TTC0LGZT:0032 Charity Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise (Non-Profit Pricing)
CFQ7TTC0LH34:000C Education Dynamics 365 Business Central Essentials (Education Faculty Pricing)
CFQ7TTC0LH34:000D Charity Dynamics 365 Business Central Essentials (Non-Profit Pricing)
CFQ7TTC0LH34:000B Education Dynamics 365 Business Central Essentials (Education Student Pricing)
CFQ7TTC0LGZT:002Z Commercial Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise - Extended Service Term

Note

These SKUs can't be purchased, they can only be used in Partner Center sandbox environments for extended service term scenarios. Review the extended service term learn topic to find out how to get started experiencing extended service terms in sandbox starting November 3, 2025.

Next steps

CSP Partners should start getting prepared for extended service terms by staying up to date:

  • Review the technical details for extended service terms. Coordinate with your technical teams to schedule the necessary updates as soon as sandbox is available in November and the new cancel at end of term option is available in January
  • Be aware that beginning April 1, 2026, subscriptions that meet all three of the following conditions will automatically be moved into EST at expiration: purchased on or after April 1, 2025; expires on or after April 1, 2026; and auto-renew is set to off.
  • Review the details on this coming change and become familiar with the system updates that are required.
  • Review the coming change with your customers and discuss the best option for their business needs before the end of their services terms to avoid unexpected billing.
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